Questions about Religion vs True Love

Once you start investigating the personal beliefs of individual human beings, it is a journey into the UNKNOWN. You are trying to answer the questions: what is s/he thinking? What does s/he believe in?

That seems to be a slippery slope where hardly anyone can keep their balance. It is partly why humans have fought and killed each other over the centuries for what they call "religion". And partly why some people end up in groups, sects or congregations where they are subject to rules, regulations, daily scrutiny, supervision and observation.

You are right that questions of this kind will be asked, and have been asked in the past (centuries ago), by ordinary men and women and by so-called philosophers. You can be sure the same questions will be asked 100 years from now.

If I had a student or child with the same dilemma (questions about life, religion, God…), this is what I would tell her or him: whatever you do in life, learn to recognize true love, and when you do, stick with it, because it will never fail you. All the rest is window dressing. If you like window dressing and cannot resist it, well, knock yourself out.

The magic of life is that you are the one thing in creation that can become totally autonomous. Unlike robots or zombies, you can make very high-level decisions on your own. The most important decision you will ever make is to recognize true love and stick to it.

It sounds easy, but it can take quite a while.

Not sure I answered your many questions, but I hope it is a useful pointer.

Words are easy. Actions take energy. How loud do you want to hear your true love? Not as loud as explosives.

My deli sɨ bo.
~wv

— Wanaku Verdzekov